fun Bear fact: "Tina's" husband in ep 6 (Napkins) is the actress' husband in real life
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How did it come to be that your real-life husband plays your on-screen husband?
He came to visit me in Chicago [during an earlier season], and I brought him to set one day, and they were fans. Chris said, “Do you think he’d want to be on the show?” And I said, “I think so.” I didn’t know know in what capacity — I think somebody said, “your ex,” and then that got me thinking, but I didn’t want to get too deep into it. Then he ends up being written as this beautiful, decent, loving, good man, which I was really happy to see.
I honestly didn’t expect it. It speaks to how even I have been programmed to look at my community. Like, why can’t I have that? Why can’t that be the norm? There’s struggle and there’s mess, but there’s love, and in its own way, stability.
What was it like to act opposite him?
He was so happy to be there, and and got along with everybody. He’s played a lot of villains, and just to be this really, genuinely good man — he was so excited. And we’ve worked together over the last 28 years. I love working with him. Like Tina and his character, he grounds me.
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